#### 24.2.2 Specifying DITA output options

To change the file extension for DITA output (not recommended):

    [Setup]
    FileSuffix = .ext

The default file extension is .dita. Unless you have a compelling reason, use .dita, not .xml, for the output file extension. Many places in DITA depend on that extension, and will break if you do not use it; for example, related links would be assigned the wrong @format value, and so would not work correctly in many tools.

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Sibling Topics:

24.2.1 Creating a DITA XML project

24.2.3 Specifying DITA version

24.2.4 Configuring the DITA DTD SYSTEM identifier

24.2.5 Substituting document format names for default names